crease
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crease (plural creases)
- A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- His pants had a nice sharp crease.
- His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.
- (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
- (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
- (ice hockey) A goal crease is an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.
- See Wikipedia article on hockey rink.
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mark made by folding
one of the white lines drawn on the pitch
lacrosse: circle around the goal
ice hockey: goal crease
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to crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)
- (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
- (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
- The bullet just creased his shoulder.
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to graze
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- IPA: [kreˈase]
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crease
- third-person singular pluperfect form of crea.
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crease (infinitive: crear)
- first-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
- formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
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